a week from hell for the city of orlando. good evening i'm dawn timmeney in for lucy noland. >> i'm iain page the recovery of the boy's body heartbreaking confirmation of what many expected. the orange county sheriff just wrapped up a news conference a few minutes ago, and he says the body of two-year-old lane graves was found by divers around 1:30 this afternoon at 3:30 the child was removed from the seven seas lagoon at grand floridian resort and taken to the medical examiner's office where an autopsy will be performed. >> i will share with you that the child was found, his body was completely intact, and so at this time we will go through the formality of making a formal identification. >> investigators say the child who is from nebraska was dragged away by an alligator believed to be four to 7 feet long. and this attack shocking people around the world tonight. >> many wondering how this could

even happen. tonight local animal experts are trying to answer that question. >> it is tragic. it is heartbreaking. it's just simply heartbreaking. there's no other way to say it. >> orange county sheriffs department officials addressing the media today after a two-year-old little boy is snatched by an alligator while wading in ankle deep water at a lagoon in disneyworld. the child's family is from nebraska. they were staying at the grand floridian resort and when alt attack took place in the seven seas lagoon right before their eyes just after 9:00 last night. >> the father did his best tried to rescue the child however to no avail. >> team of 50 people searching the waters from the air and by boat since last night. >> this is a rare, rare attack. you don't hear about these ever. super surprised. >> anne-marie, from the adventure aquarium in in camden worked with alligators over the last 30 years including this 3.5-year-old gator. the reptiles are generally more

afraid of people and tend to shy away from them. the gator likely was attracted to the movement in the water. >> alligator could have mistaken it for the splashing of say a raccoon. it was at night. so that's even worse. that's when they're most active. when they're search fog preys. >> she says it's not uncommon for alligators to be in shallow waters and says their biggest instinct is to survive. >> alligators are quick. they're smart. they know their territory. obviously this is that alligat alligator's territory. so he or she knows where to go. to get away from people. >> the florida fish and wildlife commission are still trying to find that alligator. five alligators were removed from the lagoon euthanized and examined. officials say they will look at the forensics and also continue their search in the waters by disney. according to the fish and wildlife conservation commission there were nine alligators attacks in in order last year. that was down from 10 attacks in 2014 and 15 attacks in 2013.

meanwhile in orlando, the continued aftermath from the massacre at an lgbt nightclub investigators are now trying to figure out how much the gunman's wife knew about the planned attack. so far authorities will not say whether think charges will be brought against omar mateen's wife. sources say his wife knew about what her husband was planning. meanwhile the fbi is asking anyone who knew anything about mateen to call them. they're trying to create a complete picture of why he opened fire and killed 49 people inside the pulse nightclub early sunday morning. the fbi says it has the shooter's phone and will use it to hopefully determine if mateen had visited the club before the attack. we're also on top of breaking news in south philadelphia. you may have heard it in the city. a loud boom just before 3:30 this afternoon. authorities say it happened here near 26th and christian streets in south philadelphia. get straight out to dave schratwieser who's near the scene. dave? >> reporter: dawn, a boom and some crash as some windows shattered in the building and along some homes here in the

2600 block of christian street this happened around thee 17:00 this afternoon. we'll go to skyfox for some aerial views of this. at the viola energy plant a pressure arrived steam peace of equipment gave way. a safety valve that is supposed to give way gave way, and that caused the explosion. neighbors up and down the block here and all over the area reported all kinds of tremor kind of shaking situations here. they say it sounded very much like an earthquake. >> i heard -- felt the rumble, the ground shake. heard an explosion like noise. like i said i dismissed it like an earthquake. >> the whole house shook. a large explosion. big puff of smoke. came from over there and another neighbor said that like a fiberglass or inn sewell laying or something blowing around. other than that, we don't know anything. >> sitting out there, um, taking a break and i just heard big explosion, and i ran in to check

on my friends and relatives inside, and they were okay and i heard windows shattered. >> being report to do us one of the boilers had blow out in the rear of the boiler. that's where it's designed to blow out for safety reasons. the explosion caused windows in nearby maintenance building to blow out. it caused one minor injury to an employee, and steam service was not interrupted at all to any of parts of the city. >> reporter: that one injury was someone hit by flying glass. refused to go to the hospital. was treated on scene. the fire department has now cleared the scene. they continue to investigate and work with viola energy officials trying to get to the bottom of what caused this. again loud explosion what felt like an earthquake according to some folks down here around 3:17 this afternoon. again, one minor injury. 10 workers were evacuated from the building. they are now back inside. back at work as the fire department, police department and local energy officials continue to investigate what touched this off. iain? >> all right.

dave, thank you. we are track something rain in your fox 29 weather authority. ultimate doppler as you can see showing the trouble there's even more on the way. let's check in with meteorologist kathy orr. >> those were a few appetizer showers. the real main course is to the west and that moves in just in time for the morning rush. high temperatures today on the warm side in philadelphia so far 79. we could touch 80. 78 in pottstown. 83 degrees in allentown with a lot of sunshine and reading 80. where we saw the showers through central delaware and south jersey, you can see let's see dover and wildwood. temperatures in the 70s. we'll fall through the 70s to night. talk more about the rain coming up later in the broadcast. >> all right, kathy, thank you. happening now, an investigation into a frightening crash in the city's olney second. skyfox over that scene after a philadelphia police suv and another car collide. it sent both vehicles off the road coming to rest right in front of a church. medics rushed four people including two officers to the hospital. let's get straight out to fox 29's karen hepp live at the

scene in roll feature karen, neighbors describing a pretty scary situation. >> reporter: absolutel absolute. up and done the street heard the crash. you can see where one of the crews ended. pieces of these cars were all over the police place. police cruiser went up over here on this side a police suv and another vehicle driven by civilians that wound up on the other steps. quite a scene out here today. the police suv wound up on the side steps of the first presbyterian church of olney. the sedan on the front steps. the pastor could hear the crash from inside. >> sounded like the doors were shaking real hard. >> reporter: neighbors up and down the block heard the impact of the two vehicles right here at west take bore and third street. you can see where one of the officers in the passenger seat smacked their head on the windshield. skyfox was overhead as they were loaded on to stretchers and rushed to nearby einstein hospital. police say the officers from the 35th district were on their way as backup to help out on a nearby arrest when the crash happened. >> it's very bad.

very bad. >> reporter: black maxima was heavily damaged. you can see most of the air bags blue. police say both the driver and passenger were hurt. >> the lady that was hurt in the other car was expressing some diss comfort with her head. >> reporter: she and her friend were also race the over to einstein where right now all victims are in stable condition. the accident shut down the intersection for hours. while investigators tried to figure out what happened and who was at fault. people literally stopped and stared gawking at unusual site. >> if you don't see a police car on your steps every day, but, yeah, i mean a little shocking, but things happen. >> reporter: so the accident investigation unit which will be out here we call it aid were out here this afternoon and making determinations and measurements exact who'll was at fault. we'll get the report to follow up and everybody that was injured today was taken over to einstein and they are all in stable condition. that's the very latest from out

here, dawn, back to you. >> karen, thank you. to developing story in delaware. police are working to figure out who shot three boys and a girl the oldest 16. the youngest just 12 years old. it happened last night on south van burr recent street in wilmington much those young people are being treated for their injuries. tonight neighbors are shaken by the shooting and fed up with the violence in their community. fox 29's bruce gordon is live at wilmington police headquarters. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, dawn, with the fourth of july right around the corner, most of us hear loud popping noises at night and we figure fireworks. but in wilmington's most dangerous neighborhoods that sound can mean just one thing. gunfire. 82-year-old john bets sits in the doorway of the appliance repair shop he's owned at south van buren and elm for half a century. he hadn't heard about tuesday night's shooting until reporter as letted him. his shop closes at 3:00 p.m. >> why so early? >> well, because the

neighborhood is bad. yeah. >> reporter: you don't want to be open when it gets dark? >> no. >> reporter: it was around 9:15 tuesday night when shots rang out near this intersection in the city's hedgeville neighborhood. third shooting incident here in the past week. latest shooting injured four teenagers including 12-year-old christian william. >> there was gunfire, pow pow pow pow pow pow pow. i got up from my bed. oh said oh christian. >> williams grandmother ran outside to see him sitting on the steps of a row home nursing wounds to his hip and his leg. >> i saw blood. he was in shock trembling. >> reporter: fuentes family was returning home from the grocery store bringing the bags inside when the shooting start started. storm door on the house next door was shattered by are a rant shot. what did your dad say to you? >> to get, torque get on the ground or get in the house. >> reporter: he was scared for your safety? >> yeah. but i thought -- i thought for

me it was better to get in the house. >> reporter: everyone toll us this neighborhood is getting more dangerous with each passing year. john bets says he'd like to keep busy but will soon call it quits on his appliance shop. simply too violent around who are. >> i feel lousy about it. i just think that it's like being on a sinking ship. i mean the ship is going to go down. there's nothing that will bring it back up. >> reporter: 15-year-old boy remains hospitalized in critical condition at this hour. two other young people in stable condition. a 13-year-old girl has been treated and released. no comment from wilmington police on camera today. they do ask in a press release if anyone heard or saw anything last night to please give them a call. live in wilmington, i'm bruce gordon fox 29 news. oh bleep! oh bleep! >> explosion and raging fire at a local neighborhood today. how this affecte affected thingr beyond what you see right here. a car plunges 200 feet off a

cliff. crews on the scene have to be careful they're not hurt as well. what we now know about how this happened and the driver. new at 6:00 volunteers roll up their sleeves to put in hard work. where two groups came together to turn this neglected land into a beautiful space. ♪

♪ oh bleep! oh bleep! >> a raging fire and explosion all caught on camera in chester county today. emergency crews rushing to the scene of this two alarm fire

inside an apartment building in coatesville. the flames broke out around 12:30 this afternoon. crews had to shut down business route 30 to fight the fire. still no word yet on how it started or any reports of injuries. across the river in new jersey, a tanker fire causing more traffic problems. skyfox over the new jersey turnpike in hamilton township, mercer county. that's where this tanker burst into flames just after 10:00 this morning. authorities shut down traffic in both directions while crews worked to get the fire out. there are reports one person was hurt. we're hearing that injury was minor. philadelphia police have released surveillance video they say shows the van that hit and killed a 17-year-old girl. police think the mini van shown here possibly chevy venture was the one that hit and killed 17-year-old march kayla jackson monday night. it happened along the roosevelt boulevard near adams avenue. investigators say the teen was thrown nearly 200 feet after being hit. she decide at the. a vigil for jackson is scheduled

for tonight near the scene of the accident. the faint of u.s. representative chaka fattah and his four co-defendants now rests in the hands of the jury. fattah a veteran member of the house is charged with 29 counts of corruption related offenses. at the core of the government's case is an illegal $1 million campaign lone fattah alleged to have set up in a month long trial the defense claims the feds cherry picked evidence to summer fattah and the others after hearing instructions from judge harvey bar tell the jury began deliberations at 3:00 this afternoon. the wawa welcome america festival is just a few weeks away, and organizers are promising it will be better than ever. they have a news conference today to lay out the details. the fun gets started on jun june 27th with 35 events and 350 performers. visitors will enjoy free admission to eight museums and seven free public movie nights in various spots across the city. in addition to that, they'll be three firework displays and life

music on the parkway. welcome america will give away free books to 10,000 children. organizers say it is a great festival in great city. >> the excitement around philadelphia you have to red give credit first to the city of philadelphia itself a world heritage city now. everything going so well in philadelphia to the pope's visit to dnc welcome america is just one more festival, opportunity for people to come not just in philadelphia but from far and wide to enjoy all the great things in philadelphia. >> leon bridges is the headliner for the concert. >> not a good morning for a local woman when she found the side of her parked car smashed in. at first she was relieved to find a note on the windshield. but then she ran into bit of a jam. jeff cole in the newsroom now with a look at his story for the 10:00 o'clock news. >> bit of a jam iain that's right. the gallon's vehicle took a pretty good smack. a nice left note was left behind so no problem, right? ut-oh, not so fast. >> owner showed us the note which says it was a philadelphia city vehicle that struck her

car. that repair bill was thousands of dollars. she followed the right process but wow she couldn't get that claim paid. >> i sent multiple e-mails, calls, i talked -- i left voice males. and then finally i got on the phone with someone who told me that the city wasn't responsib responsible. >> that's not good news. coming up tonight find out just what type of vehicle did the damage to amber's little blue car and we'll let you know who the city tried to blame and how this whole thing worked out. that's as fox 29 investigates tonight at 10:00. iain? >> jeff, thank you. a stern warning from the fda for one of the most popular grocery chains in the country but wholefoods says you the consumer don't need to worry. why that is. >> memorable sight in a south african courtroom today. oscar pistorius walking without his prosthetic legs watch his lawyer is trying to accomplish here. >> in a week of tragic stories we want to make sure you see

heart warming things happening as well like high school graduation where a dad flew halfway around the world to surprise his daughter. the reunion you have to see.

it was a slow commute for drivers on i-95 through part of the philadelphia today. skyfox over the northbound lanes right near girard avenue where this crash involving a tractor trailer caused delays for several hours. it happened right smack dab in the middle of rush hour around 8:00 o'clock this morning. the truck then burst into flames. crews finally got things moving again by 11:00 o'clock. happening now, the search for a robber caught on camera. pulling a gun he held up a 7eleven in frankford early monday morning. surveillance camera was rolling when he walk into the store on harrison avenue around 4:30 in the morning. police say he points a gun at a clerk and demands money and lottery tickets. the clerk hands it over. then the robber took off. no word how much money he took off with. egypt says it has spotted the wreckage of the egypt airplane that crashed into the

mad yann last month killing all 66 people on board. authorities say today a ship contracted by the egyptian government to join the search efforts found the wreckage. the plane disappeared from radar on its way from cairo to paris. no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. former olympic sprinter oscar pistorius stands without his prosthetic legs. pistorius gnaw a courtroom today for his second sentencing hearing since being convicted of murdering his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. his lawyer wanted to show that pistorius is a vulnerable man who deserves leniency during sentencing. pistorius shot through a bathroom door killing steenkamp in february of 2013. his lawyers argued that pistorius mistook her for an intruder. south africa has a minimum 15 year prison sentence for murder under certain circumstances this can be reduced by a judge pistorius will be sentenced neck month. back here in the u.s. democratic senator has launch add filibuster to force a vote

on bun control legislation. three days after 49 people were killed in that orlando nightcl nightclub. >> connecticut senator chris murphy says he'll remain on the senate floor quote until we get some signal is some sign that we can come together. senator murphy evoke the newtown school shooting in his state in 2012. 20 children and dicks educators died in the shooting at sandy hook elementary school. he can't look into the eyes of those children's relatives and tell them congress has done nothing since. the senator is seeking a vote on legislation that would let the government bar sales of guns and explosives to people it suspects are being terrorists. world health organization says it is safe to travel to brazil for the olympics after a third meeting of an emergency panel on the zika virus in geneva officials say there is a low risk of the virus spreading. they say that's because it is winter in brazil and viruses will be minimal. >> and the committee concluded that there's a very low risk of

further international spread of zika virus as a result of the olympics and para olympics which is already low. >> although the panel says the risk for international tran mission is low, it warns it can occur. officials are advising travelers to take any steps necessary to avoid being bitten by a mosqui mosquito. horrific week continues in orlando. most recently an alligator snatch as two-year-old boy and drags him away. we will take to you orlando for the latest on the investigation. plus, big news about coffee. the announcement about the morning staple that may make it a little easier to poor another cup, kathy? >> that sounds good. in weather we're talking about clouds thickening and our next weather system moving in bringing rain right in time for the morning rush much this one can slow you down. details coming up when we come back.

>> we continue to follow developing story out of orlando tonight where police say an alligator snatched two-year-old boy and dragged him into the water at a walt disneyworld resort last night. just an hour ago, authorities announced that they have recovered the boy's body. >> fox's katie burgess joins us from orlando now. kate what have authorities revealed about the discovery of the body? >> reporter: well, they're telling us that they found two-year-old lane graves about

10 to 15 feet out from where he was playing with his family along the waters edge. they found him using sonar in water about 6 feet deep. that was about 1:45 this afternoon. they're telling us that they told the family because the body was found totally intact. they've done, you know, preliminary identification of him and now the investigation is shifting to whether or not they actually have the gator involved in this. it was an 8-foot gator. we're told that lane's father wrestled with the gator tried to save his son but the gator snatched the baby and they launched a massive search effort. they had orange county sheriffs office, dive team, fwc in the air and the water as i said using sonar to locate the baby, but this very complex system of water ways here on disney property. they're manmade lakes mostly and connected usually by underwater canals. so they had massive search area turns out that the child was found about 10, 15 feet as i said in the waters from where he

was playing in seven seas lagoon. >> disney resort, a lot of people go there for vacation. how is disney respond to go all of this? >> reporter: well, disney obviously is sending out their condolences. this is a horrific tragedy and only ones in recent memory disney has been operating for 45 years. they've never had anything like this. and a lot of people have been questioning the signage here on disney property now. near the seven seas lagoon there were sign that is said no swimming but there were no sign that is warned about alligator and disney has a very robust wildlife management program here. they have a team of people that monitor these waters 24 hours day. they're looking for alligators that are showing aggression, that are,, what we call nuisance alligators. and this a reality that we deal with here in florida. so that's why they have this system here in place when they find alligators that seem to have lost their fear of people disney trappers remove them themselves. they don't get fwc involved

usually there most the alligators euthanize them. once you find an alligator showing aggression like this, the only thing you can do is put it down. because if you move it you're moving a problem as fwc was saying today. disney, you know, they don't have tragedies like this that they are routinely dealing with. their heart broken as well. speaspeaking with spokesperson today, and they're just looking at their own system. what do they needed to now to put in place so this doesn't happen again? >> all right. fox's kate burgess life for us in orlando. kate, thank you. elsewhere in orlando investigators are still trying to link together the chain of events that let up to this past weekend's terror attack. 49 people were killed when omar mateen opened fire inside a gay nightclub. fbi is now trying to figure out how much mateen's wife knew about the planned attack. authorities are also asking for the public to call in with any information they may have about the shooter. meantime the fbi says it's

recovered mateen's phone and will use it to try to determine if he had indeed visited the club before the massacre. our coverage of both of these developing stories in orlando continues on fox29.com. we will continue to post the very latest information right there on our home page. and back now to your fox 29 weather authority. pretty nice day out there, kathy. >> it sure was. >> nice. >> get a little golf in. >> i did this morning. got nine holes in. >> that's how we know it was a nice day. >> i know. >> exactly. >> i know iain all too well. couldn't get my tennis in today. the clouds are rolling in. you can zoo them on ultimate doppler. we had a few showers through south jersey and delaware. those have dissipated and now we are just talking about clouds moving back in. we have another storm system moving our way and i think the main threat will be the morning rush. right now we're seeing our cameras shake a little bit a little windy at the airport no weather issues at all. the temperature sitting at 77. the high today 80 degrees. that was our forecast high. the dew point sitting at 56.

so the air still relatively dry with low humidity. 75 in the poconos. 73 in dover. a rain cooled 71 in millville. it is only 70 degrees in wildwood. down the shore you can see 74 in ocean city. we did not have any showers. boardwalk and ac70 and the southern point right there of lbi in beach haven 72 degrees. so a nice afternoon down the shore. this evening if you're going to the phils game no weather issues. more clouds, 76. a quiet night by 9:00 p.m. 70. clouds and comfortable at 11:00 p.m. with a temperature of 68. but showers will not be far away. they will be to the west of us at 11:00 o'clock and expect some rain overnight into tomorrow morning. we'll watch our area of low pressure move through the regi region. you can see this warm front as well. low offshore will help to enhance the shower activity and we will be seeing on shore flow by the afternoon. the main threat of rain between about 4:00 and 8:00 a.m. but still some scattered showers in the afternoon and the temperatures struggling only to reach 73 degrees. so it will be a bit of a dreary

day but the biggest impact of rain will definitely be in the morning. so thursday it is going to be a rainy start to the day for sure. friday a chance of a morning shower, otherwise, pretty dece decent. saturday and sunday the best two days coming up in that seven day forecast. of course, our dad over there iain is like yes, it will be great. fox future cast as we go hour by hour you can see during the evening, we'll see a few clouds. here comes the rain, already in harrisburg by 11:00 p.m. we have already clouded up by then. look at 4:00 a.m. sue serio and bob kelly are going to be talking about the rain. right along 95 and heading as you go south in dover and even along the expressway heading to 295 and 95. so this is 4am the reds and oranges some thunderstorms as well. moving right up the i-95 corridor through south jersey by 7am you still have some rain so i do anticipate a real slow down and then as the morning continues we see some showers just lingering into the afternoon as well. we have to be watchful to the west because we have u.s. open

in oakmont pa to the northeast of pittsburgh. and they are going to be seeing some heavy rain as well. so we'll see if they play during the afternoon tomorrow. friday looks pretty decent. we'll be seeing drying conditions leading into a great holiday weekend. in the city overnight 64. the suburbs 59. the clouds thickening the rain toward midnight. during the day tomorrow, 73. rain heavy especially in the morning becoming more scattered in the afternoon. and as we look ahead, at the u.s. open forecast, oakmont, will be beautiful time by the week and but showers and some storms during the day on thursday. and early shower friday but i think they will definitely play. saturday looks great. 81 sunny and nice for your sunday 83 and of course you can watch the us open right here on fox 29. seven day forecast looks pretty good after we get through tomorrow. friday increasing sun. the high near 80. 82 saturday. and for our dads and grand dads on sunday looks great. sunny and nice 84 degrees. summer begins on monday and guess what? it is going to feel

like it. 88 degrees in some spots will make it to 90. we'll go for the gold on tuesday. sunny, 90. >> 90. >> and by wednesday looking go good, 85 degrees. if you're planning on going down the shore, here's your shore forecast. 70's are while but i'll tell you by tuesday when you're hitting 90 at home, it will be around 80 down the shore for sure. isn't beautiful. >> nice. >> yeah. >> enjoy. >> all right, kathy, thank you. a car plunges 200 feet off a cliff. crews on the scene after -- have to be care fill they're not hurt as well. what we now know about how this happened and the driver. plus a stern warning from the nba -- fda for one of the most popular grocery chains in the country. but wholefoods say you the consumer do not have to worry. >> burlington township police the latest local agency to introduce body cameras on to their force. why officials say the tool will work in the favor of officers.

>> troubling news tonight about nutrition around the globe. a third of the people worldwide are either under nourished or over waste according to the global nutrition report from the international food policy research institute. researchers say this malnourish many drives disease and pressure on health services in the u.s. the data shows when one person per household is obese and that household spends average of 8% of their annual income health care costs related to obesity meanwhile the fda sending food safety warning letter to wholefoods. >> officials say the grocery chain has until the end of the month to make some big-time changes. wholefoods has been ordered to correct problems at a massachusetts plant that supplies ready to eat products at its stores across the northeast. the fda noted serious violations saying wholefoods failed to manufacture, pack casm and store food in a way that reducing the potential for contamination.

wholefoods says it has corrected each and every of the issues identified in an earlier warning letter from the fda back in february. a car plumps over a 150-foot cliff in california and the driver survives. the car went off the road early this morning just outside los angeles. police say it fell about 100 feet and got wedged in some brush. the driver got out and made his way out to the beach below. rescue crews repelled down the cliff to make sure there was no one else in the car. the driver is injured but expected to survive. no word yet on what caused the crash. our cover much ratch of the orlando nightclub massacre continues tonight. investigators continuing to look at the wife trying to figure out how much she knew about the attack. still to come, the fate she could be facing. plus big news about coffee. the world health organization just making a big announcement about the morning favorite that may make it ease your for yourself to pour another cup. howard. >> the phillies back at home tonight with an interesting lineup the manager is putting out there.

and in a backhanded way, baseball trying to portray someone else as the hit king over pete rose much that's all coming up in sports.

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yesterday we brought you powerful words from patience carter she survived the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. early sunday morning at the pulse lgbt nightclub. carter spoke from the hospital where she is still being treated for gunshot to her leg. she is an intern here at fox 29 and we've been keeping in constant constant with her. >> she called into good day this morning to update mike jerrick, alex holey and karen hepp on her recovery. >> patience, good to hear from you. how are you? >> i'm doing better. >> are you better? tell me what the doctors did? i know that your femur, the upper bone of your leg was shattered and you have some shrapnel in the other leg. what did the doctors do for you? >> well, they had to, um, do surgery on my right, um, leg and they put a rod inside my thigh to replace like the parts where the bone was shatter. >> right. >> to keep whatever is less connected. i'll get a brace. >> we were just showing -- i want to explain what people were looking at there. you made a music video we all

have on our computer and watched over and over again. >> i remember watching it beautiful. what do the doctors say, will you be -- are you going to be able to walk and dance? >> yeah, i'm going to be able to walk fine. they just waiting to see how the progress goes because it's tomorrow a release date for me. i'm hoping that goes well so i can get out of here. >> we want to you get out, patience. i have to say i haven't had a chance to talk i plan on calling you later today. you are so brave seeing you yesterday and i just want you to know all of philly, you've gotten overwhelming response. have you heard anything from -- have you realized how many people are behind you? >> yeah. i really have. it's really the support is just -- it's so great to have and in the midst of some people who think that this tragedy was a hoax or think that, you know, some people are lying about this tragic event happened, like philadelphia and you guys supporting me really up lifts my spirits right now. so thank you so much for continuing to support me.

>> thank you for being brave to talk. i don't know who else could have done that. the poem you wrote was beautif beautiful. >> don't listen to those haters on the internet. i was reading some of that stuff, too. >> yeah. >> we will continue to follow patience's recovery. a brave young lady we look forward to her return here at fox 29. meanwhile investigators are peacing together the movements of the shooter omar mateen just before the shooting and figuring out how much his wife may have known about the plot that left 49 people dead. sources say authorities believe noor salman knew ahead of time about sunday's tack and people around the world are wondering if she'll face any charges. >> also on good day fox 29 legal analyst ken rothweiler talked with mike and alex about what those charges could actually be. >> since she was his wife, i guess she should have called 911. if she called 911 alerted somebody and that's the difference here? >> yeah, she definitely should have alerted somebody because she didn't, she can be arrested for aiding an betting. >> she knew about this stuff.

>> what could possibly her defense. she didn't think he was serious. >> he beat the heck out of his first wife and she was afraid of him. >> well, yeah. defense lawyers come um with pretty good defenses. she can also say, you know what, when we went to the pulse nightclub i didn't know he was going to tack that place. >> people talk. >> i just thought he went there plus the fact, you know, there's information he supposedly went to this pulse nightclub two times a month for the prior three years. >> y. >> he was in there all the time. so she can come up with story we were just going by to see what was going on at the club. i don't think it's a believable story. i think when you match that with all the other things that he told her he wanted to have attack somebody the fact he went out and bought ammunition an holster unadd they were going to the pulse nightclub and also the disney center, add all those things together, i think two and two is four. i think a jury would conclude she knew. >> yeah. >> i think a jury -- >> she can be charged with aiding an betting, conspiracy and what's called felony murder. which means that she'll spent the rest of her live in jail if

she's convicted. >> investigators have spoken extensively with salman and are work to go establish whether she recently accompanied mateen to the pulse club. sources say investigators have not ruled out charging others including salman and we learn this afternoon president obama will travel to orlando tomorrow to meet with the victims families. people from all over the world showing their support for orlando after sunday night's deadly terror attack. a group from chicago sending a team of comfort dogs. the dogs arrived monday hoping to bring some light in a time of darkness for so many. for some support pouring in from across the nation is overwhelming. >> this is the best thing that everyone can do. just get together and now to see these dogs, they're from chica chicago. we're from chicago. >> my god, we're getting... >> the team of 19 people and 12 golden retrievers will be visiting injured victims in the hospital and first responders

for now they say they plan on staying a week but may stay longer depending upon the community's needs. our coverage of the attack in orlando continues on fox29.com. we will continue to post the very latest information right there on our home page. in your health tonight, coffee and your cancer risk. the world health organization down grades its classification of coffee as a possible carcinogen saying there's not enough proof to show a link to cancer but the news isn't all good. the same report the who warned that drinking extremely hot beverages of any kind could potentially raise your cancer risk. researchers pointed to countries including china and iran where teas are drunk at extremely high temperatures. they say it can scold the throat and promote the growth of tumors. graduating seniors from one local charter high school have a lot more to be proud of than just their new diploma the class of 2016 taking part in their commencement ceremony today in university city. but get this. this year's garaging class from universal audenried charter high

school has been awarded over $1 million in scholarships and that is a record for the school. well in a week of tragic stories, we want to make sure you see some heart warming things that have been happening as well like this high school graduation where a dad flew halfway around the world to surprise his daughter. the reunion you have to see. new at 6:00 something these elementary students did today will go a long way to help service members battling ptsd. >> plus volunteers roll up their sleeves to put in hard work. where two groups came together to turn this they could land into a beautiful space.

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now that the summer season is here you can pick up some fresh fruits and veggies while you're strolling through center city. farmers mark at dilworth park will operate every wednesday from 11:00 in the morning until 2:00 p.m. it's a collaborative effort with the farm to city program. a final farewell for a world war ii veteran. the community in cochranville coming together today to pay respects to jesse thomas. thomas passed away on monday june 6th just one day before his 90th birthday. he enlisted in the u.s. marine corp. and earned two purple hearts an bronze star. thomas was the last surviving member of the team that raised the american flag on the island of okay can you now was. >> graduation day got even more special for one california high school student. >> she had no idea that her dad had flown halfway around the world to see her walk across the stage.

fox's salvadore rivera has their story. i didn't want to let go. i wanted to hold on to him i haven't seen him it would have been a whole year in september and he probably would have missed my 18th birthday, too. >> reporter: but master sergeant derek morris did make it to his daughter's high school graduation. camille morris thought her father was doing to miss this milestone in her life while he served with his army unit in kuwait. >> really wanted him to be here to see me graduate. so forgive to text me this morning and saying he wasn't coming kind of made it real for me he wasn't. but then when he showed up it was -- it was really a mazing. >> i actually would like camille to join me. >> the principal helped to a range the reunion he cep eight secret from camille and her classmates. he let them file into the stadium. take their seats and began the ceremony. he then brought camille to the center of the field and introduced master sergeant morris to the crowd and the

magical moment took place. >> i always see those on videos, those like happy graduation of kids who's parents were deployed and they come back during the graduation. i wish that was me. now it really was me. camille simon morris. >> i'm very proud. i'm very proud. very. keeping the secret was hard. there came a times i wanted to say i'm coming but i'm glad i didn't. >> honestly it's just so amazing and so surreal. i can't believe i really can't believe you're here. like i'm so flustered with words i don't even know what to say. i'm just so happy. >> i love you. >> i love you. >> aww. entire morris family will now spend a few days together before ethos return to kuwait. ♪ bullets ring out wilmington neighborhood injuring four teenagers, one of them

critically. >> there was gunfire pow pow pow pow pow pow pow. i got up from my bed. oh i said, oh, christian. >> tonight what neighbors are saying now about living with on-going violence in the area. plus police responding to a call end up in an emergency themselves. when their suv collides with another car in olney. >> you don't see a police car on your steps every day, but, yeah, i mean it's a little shocking. >> where the vehicles ended up that might have been their saving grace. ♪ live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6:00. first we start with the latest developments on the deadly nightclub shooting in orlando. authorities are considering filing criminal charges against the wife of the orlando nightclub shooter as investigators dig deeper into the gunman's past.

good evening, i'm iain page. >> i'm dawn timmeney investigators are peacing together the shooter's movements leading up to that massacre and they're zeroing in on how much his wife knew about the plot. noor salman was reportedly with omar mateen when he cased possible targets including wall disneyworld and the pulse nightclub. the feds have reportedly convened a grand jury to investigate salman. she could be charged as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempted murder. meanwhile authorities say mateen was likely self radicalized. now the youngest of the 49 victims killed in sunday's massacre was a recent graduate of west catholic prep in west philadelphia. >> and right now friends of akyra murray gathering for a vigil in her memory. fox 29's chris o'connell is live in west philadelphia, chris, a heart broken community coming together tonight. >> reporter: iain, it was less than two week ago that akyra murray graduated third in her class here from west catholic